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Objectives Landscape = a geographic Orientation at some level of granularity Useful for developing roadmaps between where you are now and where you wish to go Assure explicit goal criteria and metrics of time- distance-cost-value added Avoid disasters by building on past experiences Avoid tarpits, swamps, cliffs, etc. by inspection and introspection+--

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Current Work to synthesize Funding Sources for Ontolog WG SBIR proposals as opportunity to add value Pronto as potential project Code Name Pragmatic Ontologies? Production Rules and Business Rules? Processes for UBL Solutions? What strategy to use to identify feasible and productive questions for our SPIR proposal?

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Where would you scan for new ideas? Published experts in related domains Current issues; problems with existing standards and tools Major vendors (Geoff Moores Gorillas) Technology Trends anticipated 2-5 years out SBIR Requirements and their recent awards

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Placement of UBL and Ontolog? Focus remains on content and context of the SBIR proposal What is the critical technology topic at NIST? How do we organize to phrase our most relevant Query? Who best understands the content and context for this Query? Which resources do we need to marshal for this project?

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Interfaces to Inference Engines F-Logic based interface to Ontobroker / OntoEdit of Ontoprise GmbH (we also have used DAML) Cerebra Construct is 100% compatible with SemTalk. OWL & Visio drawing Construct is integrated with the Cerebra Engine of Network Inference Ltd.

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Experiments with 8 EON2002 models Loom We did not try to convert the Lisp files OilEd After fixing some issues on the SemTalk DAML import, a subset of the model could be imported. The OildEd model differs significantly from the other models because it makes frequent use of those DAML features which are not support by SemTalk for DAML: intersectionOf, unionOf etc. On the other hand this model is quite close to OWL. We tried to rename some XML elements to OWL, but finally failed to import it mainly because of the combination of cons-ed Lists and operators. OntoEdit Since SemTalk has only an F-Logik export and not an F-Logik import function, the flo file could not be imported. Using DAML import classes, instances and properties could be imported. Cardinalities are ignored. OpenKnoME We did not try to convert the Smalltalk files Protégé Using RDFS import. Ignored by SemTalk RDFS Import even if the SemTalk engine could represent them: OverridingProperty Cardinalities Allowed Values / Defaultvalues All Data types Inverse properties are mapped as properties Terminae We did not try to convert the text / Oil files WebODE Failed to import classes as rdf:description with rdf:type Class KAON Successful import after manually removing the XML-namespace a:

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Summary SemTalk failed to import DAML models with complex expressions This issue has already been fixed for OWL SemTalk succeeded in importing taxonomies from all tools, which support DAML or RDFS ==== From a business point of view the lack of importing models having axioms and rich logical expressions is not very relevant since those expressions are not included in the other SemTalk methodologies such as Business Process Modelling. Being able to import taxonomies with subclassing and properties is the main point for our current customers.